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Excerpt from The Treaty of Ghent, and After
But the United States - this people who had failed miserably on land against Great Britain, and had for twenty years en dured the insults of Great Britain and France with a supineness which only increased their' insolence - how did it stand? De feated on land, asserting itself with notable success on the sea, with a war power as yet undeveloped, torn by internal dissen sion and even facing disunion, its administration discredited, its finances on the brink of national bankruptcy, it eagerly wel comed the offer of Russia's mediation, and when that had been rejected by England, accepted direct negotiations with its enemy. By rights such a people should come as suitors, beg ging at the hands of Britain the right to be independent. Of undefined ideals, embarking upon a novel experiment in gov ernment it asked for sufferance. And even the place of meet ing suggested a certain dependence, for Ghent was garrisoned by the British.
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